Can we make poop smell like flowers?

[Coach]

Dear Dr Steve,
While sitting on the "throne" and fully enjoying the aroma of my own excrement, it dawned on me...could one..given a diet of edible roses/flowers/....etc. make their shit smell like roses.
I am sure you have been questioned on this before, and have, in moments of self reflection on your own throne often thought about it.

(ps. If you form a decent diet that will attempt to go there..I will be a volunteer for it!)
Yours,
Coach

[Dr Steve]

Dear Dr Steve,
While sitting on the "throne" and fully enjoying the aroma of my own excrement, it dawned on me...could one..given a diet of edible roses/flowers/....etc. make their shit smell like roses.
I am sure you have been questioned on this before, and have, in moments of self reflection on your own throne often thought about it.

(ps. If you form a decent diet that will attempt to go there..I will be a volunteer for it!)
Yours,
Coach

I have always wondered about this myself. I can tell you from experience that people with colostomies that stink often benefit from the addition of chlorophyll in their diet. I read some studies on cow feces and how the odor can be annoying to farmers and how changing up their diet will help, but cows are ruminants and their digestive tracts are totally different from ours.

The stench of feces is caused by bacteria in the gut that digest and ferment crap our own bodies doesn't see fit to absorb. Fat in the diet is felt to cause the sulfur-y smell, while undigestible sugars cause odorless carbon dioxide. I'm not sure any amount of flower eating will make poop actually smell like flowers, because of the way bacteria work. However, you can change the type of bacteria in the gut by ingesting large amounts of the bacteria you want to introduce. this is the concept behind "probiotic" supplements.

Decreasing fat, taking chlorophyll supplements, and eating probiotic yogurt (or taking probiotic supplements) should improve the smell, in theory. They used to sell pills for poopstink in Japan, as I recall, but if they worked I figure they'd be everywhere by now.

I think our symbiotic relationship with these bacteria means we'll have to live with the smell of shit, even five billion years from now when the sun engulfs the earth in red-giant armageddon.

[SinA]

It amazes me that a doctor actually took the time to respond to that asinine question, and in doing so so very eloquently and matter-of-factly made me no longer believe the question to be asinine.

Chlorophyll you say? My shits actually smell pretty sweet as it is, but I may be looking into softening the hard edge on my dogs' dumps. I might dose the wife with some probiotics too while I'm at it.

[~Katja~]

Dear Dr Steve,
While sitting on the "throne" and fully enjoying the aroma of my own excrement, it dawned on me...could one..given a diet of edible roses/flowers/....etc. make their shit smell like roses.
I am sure you have been questioned on this before, and have, in moments of self reflection on your own throne often thought about it.

(ps. If you form a decent diet that will attempt to go there..I will be a volunteer for it!)
Yours,
Coach
the flower petals (the edible part of the flower) are not fragrant!


and I tell my kid my farts and poop smell like cotton candy... every time we get near a candy isle he yells out Mommy you farted:) fun!

[MC Pee Pants]

I don't know about you, but my shit don't stink.

[JohnGacysCrawlSpace]

Psychological abuse rules. :clap:

[DolaMight]

Funny I asked the same question to my doctor. He didn't answer and seemed uncomfortable. His school must not have been fancy enough.

[~Katja~]

Funny I asked the same question to my doctor. He didn't answer and seemed uncomfortable. His school must not have been fancy enough.
nah he is not allowed to answer under the socialized health care plans.

[Enabler]

shit is supposed to smell bad. right? its waste. youre not supposed to keep it around like potpourri. even if the human race could get shit to smell like flowers...it would still be bad to inhale. it smells bad to instinctually keep you away from it. eat all the flowers you want...nature will find a way to make shit repulsive.

that being said, if i eat 4 quarter-pounders do i gain a pound? (dont answer that dr steve)

[DolaMight]

nah he is not allowed to answer under the socialized health care plans.

You people pay too much attention to us lately, it's uncomfortable to have the spotlight on us. Go back to pretending we're not there and we'll be happy in our long lineups waiting to be seen by a doctor (who didn't move down south for better pay) for free... until tax time.

[Dr Steve]

shit is supposed to smell bad. right? its waste. youre not supposed to keep it around like potpourri. even if the human race could get shit to smell like flowers...it would still be bad to inhale. it smells bad to instinctually keep you away from it. eat all the flowers you want...nature will find a way to make shit repulsive.

that being said, if i eat 4 quarter-pounders do i gain a pound? (dont answer that dr steve)


great point, but of course it's human nature to try to screw around with stuff.

In ancient Israel, I'm told, all the fecal matter was deposited at one end of the land outside the city walls. The place was called "Sheol" and it was SO nasty that "Sheol" came to represent "Hell". It's amazing that humans ever developed civilization, what with all the stool and urine that had to be dealt with when people decided to live together.

[Coach]

It amazes me that a doctor actually took the time to respond to that asinine question, and in doing so so very eloquently and matter-of-factly made me no longer believe the question to be asinine.

Chlorophyll you say? My shits actually smell pretty sweet as it is, but I may be looking into softening the hard edge on my dogs' dumps. I might dose the wife with some probiotics too while I'm at it.

Nice Pun!!!:smile:

[Coach]

It amazes me that a doctor actually took the time to respond to that asinine question, and in doing so so very eloquently and matter-of-factly made me no longer believe the question to be asinine.

Chlorophyll you say? My shits actually smell pretty sweet as it is, but I may be looking into softening the hard edge on my dogs' dumps. I might dose the wife with some probiotics too while I'm at it.
It really bothered me over the last few days that you posted this. The topic is WEIRD MEDICINE...so I asked an odd Question...How is my quest for knowledge, no matter how weird or obscure, less valid than an obviously closed and pedestrian mind like yours?

[Dr Steve]

It really bothered me over the last few days that you posted this. The topic is WEIRD MEDICINE...so I asked an odd Question...How is my quest for knowledge, no matter how weird or obscure, less valid than an obviously closed and pedestrian mind like yours?

when i read sina's post, I didn't take it that he meant you were being asinine for asking the question, rather that the subject itself is just silly. and it is, you must admit. :smile: that doesn't make it any less appropriate for this forum, in fact, just the opposite! HA!

[Coach]

when i read sina's post, I didn't take it that he meant you were being asinine for asking the question, rather that the subject itself is just silly. and it is, you must admit. :smile: that doesn't make it any less appropriate for this forum, in fact, just the opposite! HA!
True...maybe I overreacted. And yes, it was silly. But a little nonsence now and then is cherished by the wisest men!

[Dr Steve]

True...maybe I overreacted. And yes, it was silly. But a little nonsence now and then is cherished by the wisest men!

agreed!

[Coach]

agreed!

Just an aside...I saw those pills you can buy that supposedly can make your turds sparkle with gold...presumably wouldn't the same be possible by drinking a load of goldschlager?(I wouldn't..I stopped with hard alcohol back in my college years.)

[Dr Steve]

Just an aside...I saw those pills you can buy that supposedly can make your turds sparkle with gold...presumably wouldn't the same be possible by drinking a load of goldschlager?(I wouldn't..I stopped with hard alcohol back in my college years.)


please send me that link. who the hell would want that? I can imagine wanting to take a pill so you don't stink up the house, but what's the purpose of sparkly logs? "Hey Honey, come see my fecal matter twinkle!"

gold flakes would indeed pass through the colon nontarnished and undigested. So would sparkly confetti (don't try this at home).

[Coach]

please send me that link. who the hell would want that? I can imagine wanting to take a pill so you don't stink up the house, but what's the purpose of sparkly logs? "Hey Honey, come see my fecal matter twinkle!"

gold flakes would indeed pass through the colon nontarnished and undigested. So would sparkly confetti (don't try this at home).
http://www.callmeontheyacht.com/2008/01/i-saw-it-first-gold-poop-pills.html